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Sandy Student
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Assistant Professor of Educational Statistics and Research Methods, University of Delaware

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Not sure there would always be a hypothesis about the rank order of the loadings, but I’d hope that the work that goes into writing good items creates the other ones implicitly
November 2, 2023 at 5:42 PM
I’m teaching intro EFA next week and this is essentially the perspective I’m teaching from: we’ve spent most of the semester on writing good questions aligned to a theory about the construct of interest, and that doesn’t suddenly disappear when we collect responses and stick them into an EFA
November 2, 2023 at 5:41 PM